Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The past is not what it was.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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